{"id":117062,"date":"2025-11-04T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:56:07","slug":"nuremberg-review-wwii-drama-tries-to-transcend-awards-bait-cliches-to-mixed-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117062\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuremberg Review \u2014 WWII Drama Tries to Transcend Awards Bait Cliches to Mixed Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With one of the biggest casts of the year and a talented writer-director in <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0888743\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Vanderbilt<\/a> (the screenwriter of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443706\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zodiac<\/a>), the WWII drama Nuremberg seemingly had the potential to ascend above its awards bait trappings. However, despite its occasional ambitions, Vanderbilt\u2019s film is just far too uneven to work.<\/p>\n<p>What is Nuremberg about?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29567915\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuremberg<\/a> is adapted from <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3330932\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack El-Hai<\/a>\u2019s book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, following American psychiatrist <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2378856\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Kelley<\/a> as he is assigned to prepare Nazi <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0351425\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hermann G\u00f6ring<\/a> for trial at Nuremberg. The result feels like a cross of sorts between a courtroom drama and a Mindhunter-like psychological thriller \u2014 a concept that sounds interesting on paper but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one of the biggest casts of the year and a talented writer-director in James Vanderbilt (the screenwriter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,156,434,4223,409,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-117062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-realisateurs","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}